Journal of the Association for Vascular Access

The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA), the official journal of the Association for Vascular Access, is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The journal endeavors to promote excellence in vascular access practice in all health care settings. JAVA strives to advance the field of vascular access by disseminating new and relevant information to its readership. The journal accepts original articles from authors in all relevant disciplines and settings. Topics of interest to the journal include: evidence-based practice, new initiatives, outcomes research, patient/family satisfaction, patient and family instruction, international and multidisciplinary issues, use of devices, implementation of new technologies, financial implications of devices, and issues confronted in clinical practice.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2013: 0.438SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.285

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2013: 0.285SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.